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\n FILE – Copies of the People’s Daily newspaper with a front page photo and headline which reads “Xi Jinping holds talks with US President Trump”, are displayed at a news stand in Beijing on May 15, 2026. Trump said he had made “fantastic trade deals” with China’s Xi Jinping, as the pair met on May 15 at final talks of a superpower summit that according to the US leader has also reaped a Chinese offer to help open the Strait of Hormuz.
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A week since President Trump visited China, details are beginning to emerge on the agreements reached in Beijing, though the two sides have largely stuck to their own interpretations of those deals.<\/p>\n

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Going into the summit, both the U.S. and China said they wanted to stabilize bilateral relations, but for different reasons. The U.S. wanted<\/u><\/a> to turn down the temperature on what was an escalating trade war with China as it tries to juggle its war against Iran. Crucially, it wanted China to resume a steady flow of rare earth minerals key to the manufacturing of products including cellphones and weapons. <\/p>\n

In the meantime, China, which is dealing with a sluggish domestic economy and disruption<\/a> of its supply chains by the Iran war, wanted jet engines, semiconductors and a shift in U.S. policy on Taiwan, according to Shen Dingli, an independent international relations scholar in Shanghai.<\/p>\n